CLASS Granted Funding to Examine Social Issues
Funding of HK$6.07 million has been granted to 16 projects proposed by CityU’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) under the Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (Special Round), launched by the Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office of the HKSAR Government. The special round of funding was launched to support research studies in topics related to the underlying causes of recent social incidents, as well as important political, economic, cultural and societal issues relating to deep-seated problems in society. The research projects started in March 2020 and are expected to be completed in six months.
Among all the institutions and think tanks that have made applications for the funding, CityU has the highest number of projects awarded (18 out of 79), and all but two of the projects are from CLASS faculty members. Details of the granted projects are shown in the table below. CLASS will continue its efforts in achieving excellence in research and encourage its faculty members to contribute their knowledge for the betterment of the society.
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
| Chinese and History | Dr CHAN Hok-yin | The Making of “Hongkongers”: A Study of Post-Secondary Students’ Collective Identity |
| Media and Communication | Dr Stella CHIA | Use Fact Checking to Reduce Misinformation, Misperception and Rebuild Social Trust |
| Media and Communication | Dr Tetsuro KOBAYASHI | Where is Halfway? Identifying the Common Policy Ground and its Effects on Attitudinal Change among Hong Kong Citizens |
| Media and Communication | Dr SHEN Fei | How to Reduce Political Polarization in Hong Kong? A Pilot Experiment of Deliberation |
| Public Policy | Dr Edmund CHENG Wai | The Socioeconomic and Political Origins of the Hong Kong Protests |
| Public Policy | Dr Bill TAYLOR | New Unions as Old Binaries or New Directions |
| Public Policy | Professor Ray YEP Kin-man | Radicalization of the Educated: Moving Towards Extremism? |
| Public Policy | Professor Richard M WALKER | Knowledge Illusion, Community of Knowledge and Citizens’ Extreme Attitudes in Politics and Public Policy |
| Social and Behavioural Sciences | Dr Oliver CHAN Heng-choon | Dr Oliver CHAN Heng-choon Exploratory Study of Attitudes toward Violence among Hong Kong People |
| Social and Behavioural Sciences | Dr Jacky CHEUNG Chau-kiu | Removing Radicalism through Deradicalization Engagements among Youth |
| Social and Behavioural Sciences | Professor CHUI Wing-hong | (Non-)Violence in the Name of …? Exploring Protester-Police Conflicts during the 2019 Anti-Extradition Movement with the Elaborated Social Identity Model |
| Social and Behavioural Sciences | Dr Annis FUNG Lai-chu | The Underlying Causes and Characteristics of Aggression and Victimisation among Participants in the Recent Social Incidents |
| Social and Behavioural Sciences | Dr KWAN Chi-kin | Psychosocial Investigation of Youth Unrest in Hong Kong |
| Social and Behavioural Sciences | Dr Eileen TSANG Yuk-ha | The Home as a Barometer of Society: “Practices of Intimacy” to Moderate Family Intergenerational Conflict in Anti-Extradition Law Protests in Hong Kong |
| Social and Behavioural Sciences | Dr YUE Xiaodong | Enhancing Compatibility between National and Local Identities for Hong Kong Youth: Survey Studies and Policy Recommendations for Social Reconciliation Strategies |
| Social and Behavioural Sciences | Dr Andrew LOW Yiu-tsang | Adolescents’ Voices are Heard: Conflict Resolution Strategies and Preferred Parenting Style of Hong Kong Chinese Adolescents to Resolve Parent-Adolescent Conflicts in the Current Social Situation |